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ambush verb. ME.
[Old French embuschier, ult. formed as IM-1, BUSH noun1.]
verb trans. Dispose (troops etc.) in concealment among bushes or elsewhere, in order to surprise an enemy. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
Coleridge The ambushed soldier must not fire his musket. refl.: Sir W. Scott To ambush us in greenwood bough.
verb intrans. Lie in ambush; lie in wait, lurk. E17.
M. Arnold The archest chin Mockery ever ambush'd in.
verb trans. Attack from an ambush; waylay. M17.
A. Haley He had organized a war party..to track and ambush a detachment of the U.S. Army.
ambusher noun a person who lays an ambush L19.